Ex-cop stalked friend’s husband and hacked his social media accounts trying to wreck their marriage

Ashley Boyd was described by the judge as “evil and calculated” as she was jailed for 11 months

Ashley Boyd was described by the judge as “evil and calculated” as she was jailed for 11 months

A former police officer who stalked her friend’s husband and hacked his social media accounts to try and wreck their marriage has been jailed.
Ashley Boyd from Moodiesburn, Lanarkshire, became obsessed with Kevin O’Connor, stalked him on social media, posting about a phantom intimacy between them, disparaging his marriage and even persuaded a friend to give a false statement to police in a bid to cover her tracks. Problem was Kevin is married to her friend and former colleague Rhona.
Boyd, 27, masquerading as Kevin O’Connor sent messages to his friends with slurs about his “unhappy marriage.”
She changed his relationship status on Facebook to “single” and posted an offensive comment about his wife Rhona on his Twitter account.
When the twitter hack blew up, Boyd, a mother-of-one then persuaded a friend to give a false ­statement to police accepting blame for the Twitter post in a twisted attempt to get off the hook.

Coveter-in-chief: Ashley Boyd was convicted of stalking her former friend’s husband, Kevin O’Connor, and actively working to wreck their marriage

In her bid to take over the couple’s life, Boyd on one occasion took the liberty of cancelling a hospital appointment for Rhona – who she used to be her friend – while she was working for Police Scotland, the Daily Record reports.
Rhona became friends with Boyd when they worked in a Boots shop, although the friendship deteriorated by the end of 2013. She joined Police Scotland when she left Boots in 20115. She quit the force in December
Boyd pled guilty to stalking and causing the couple “fear and alarm” between June and September last year.
She also admitted a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
She was sentenced to 11 months and granted a five-year non-harassment order to protect the O’Connors, Friday by sheriff Paul Crozier.
He branded Boyd’s actions “evil and calculated to be destructive”..
Noting that the defendant admitted to lying – until a second ­background report was compiled – insisting that she had been in an intimate ­relationship with Kevin. She later accepted it was untrue: “Your conduct throughout this whole sorry episode has been ­destructive, ­self-serving and manipulative,” sheriff Crozier said.
Speaking afterwards, Rhona said: “It has been an absolute nightmare, my health suffered, I have been ill constantly.
“This is punishment, we will be able to move on.”